drummania 2ndMIX

drummania 2ndMIX
Also known as: PercussionFreaks 2ndMIX (AS/KR) Developer: Konami AMD Publisher: Konami Platform: Arcade (Konami System 573) Released in JP: March 27, 2000 Released in KR: 2000 Released in AS: 2000 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has regional differences.

It's drummania 2ndMIX, now with a moderate amount of licensed songs.

Unused Graphics

Placeholder song selection entries for possibly a repeated "dummy" song, titled 歯痛いGIRL [Ha itai GIRL], literally meaning "Toothache Girl", and for the How To Play sequence can be found in GAME.DAT.

(Source: tikal.)

Unused Text

Starting in offset 0x54EE8 in GAME.DAT is a song listing of some sorts. This list seems to mention two unplayable songs, both of which later appeared in later titles.

Offset	ID	Title	Comment
0x54F44	clip2_youll_be	You'll be a man	Possibly You'll be a man by Thomas Howard Lichtenstein, which debuted nearly five years later in DrumMania V.
0x54FEC	clip2_ai_no	ai no sirusi	A cover of PUFFY's song Ai no shirushi, which later appeared in drummania 3rdMIX.

(Source: tikal.)

Regional Differences

drummania 2ndMIX was released in Asia under the title of PercussionFreaks 2ndMIX, which fully translates the game's UI and several song titles. A Korean version, which is based on this Asia release, contains a couple more differences compared to the original Japanese release. Regarding the game's songlist, only new differences will be entered in this section.

Songlist

• The licensed songs Bambina, LOVE AFFAIR and Haru ~SPRING~ were changed to instrumental versions.

Background Animations

• Several sprites of the background animations of the song HELPLESS, which feature a dancing woman, were changed to silhouettes. Curiously, this change was also done in the Japanese releases starting from drummania 3rdMIX.

Japan	Korea

Song Selection Screen

• In a similar fashion to its background animations, the icon for HELPLESS was changed as well.

Japan	Korea